20 October 2014

Email Marketing Automation Is The Answer To Streamlining Your Contacts

By Dominique Martin


Many of the things that are used to promote the services or the products you offer cost a lot of money. Some of these tasks are free, in money, however, they require a lot of time to be effective. There is writing, advertising, blogging and Facebook posting. There will be a lot more time if the promoters had to compose every email they send out to each recipient. For all of those reasons, an email marketing automation program is what is needed and it is inexpensive.

Email has become one of the most inexpensive ways to communicate. There are no printing costs involved or envelopes and no stamps needed. Not only that, this is an almost immediate way to communicate, depending on how often your recipients check their accounts.

The various parts of an automation system begins with a capture form and the program that generates it for you. This form is designed to attract and collect, or capture, an interested persons email address. This form is generated by an auto responder software and makes it easy to post this form on any Internet media.

The auto responder is the heart of the system. This is a program, most often web based and sometimes in a piece of software on your hard drive. Its purpose, other than creating a capture form, is to automate the sending of emails on a regularly scheduled basis. All of the emails that will be sent out will be written by you, or a company you can hire for this, and inserted into the proper campaign in the auto responder.

The frequency of the messages is just as important as the tone of them. Please respect their time and privacy by only providing informative information, without trying to hard sell them, at a frequent yet not overpowering time frame. This information should address problems they have and introducing and reintroducing your company and you to them. This builds a relationship you must have in order to become considered someone with whom they can trust.

Getting the email addresses into the system is what the vast majority of your marketing efforts should go toward. These capture forms should be on your websites and blogs. They will need to be on any Twitter feed you engage in and the Facebook pages you maintain.

Since this type of automated system is so important to your efforts as a marketer, you could do worse than to find a company who can help you with this. They will be in the best position to design the capture form with all of the important trigger words needed to get the appropriate attention. They can help you design an attractive email and write all of the follow up messages that are needed.

Having a system that takes all of the email addresses in and maintains the data base so all of the messages can go out is an important part of your business in this modern, Internet world. Taking the time to compose an individual message for each person, every time you want to send them some new information, will take more time than you have available. Making this a system that works, under the radar, so to speak, is the best choice and the cost can be as low as providing free coffee to your whole office for one month.




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